Does this get any better? >.<

"Fun" is relative. Also, your class is meant to be a hard hitting, but squishy class.

About the hitting, having 100 dex does not make you hit everything. At higher levels (namely 77+) you will have access to rings that give you +50% accuracy, have fun xD. Also at your level you have like what? 5% crit? Of course you will not crit a lot.

About the pot and almost die stuff. You do not have any good skills yet, you will get all the regular skills when you reach level 59. Use the skills you have to your advantage, buff up, knock them back, use slow and stun them. It is a thing of experience to learn what skill rotation works for you.

Particularly around 60, the archer starts to get really good. Some say we "peak" in the 70s and then experience a slow decline. But as far as normal mob-kililng goes, you'll be just fine by the 50s-60s.

In the meantime, try the following things:

• Open with a Frost Arrow to delay the mob from reaching you.
• When a mob does reach you, use your metal skills (e.g. Lightning Strike), because these are not affected by the damage penalty. Winged Pledge can work well at your level also.
• If all else fails, kite (run and continue to shoot) or buy a set of fists/claws. I started using a claw weapon in the late 20s for when the mobs got too close to me. This will become unnecessary beginning in the 60s, but they can still be good to have for certain situations.

And then the biggest one IMO: use the Apothecary skill to make Life Powder and Focus Powder. This will massively reduce your dependence on potions. Here's what I did at your level, if you don't know these things already.

Life Powder (50 HP regen/second for 10 minutes) is easy to make using only Nectar and Golden Herb (the formula being 15 Nectar + 10 Golden Herb = 5 Life Powder). There are several areas where you can farm these herbs with little or no resistance from the mobs. I would recommend Dragon's Breath Valley (just east of Lost City), although Vibrant Cliffs is a good area as well and will be more familiar to you. Just spend an hour or two gathering up herbs - you will thank yourself for it later.

After you make 10 sets of life powder, you can upgrade your apothecary skill to lv2. Then start collecting Crane Herb, which can be combined with Salvia Root to make Focus Powder (50 MP regen/second for 10 minutes). You will want to gather as much Crane Herb as possible so you have a good stack of Focus Powder at level 30 (which is when you can first use it). Crane Herb is most prominent around the Shattered Jade Shore - just watch out for the mobs around there as they are in the high 30's.

I'd also recommend Jade Powder (3000 MP over 30 seconds; 10 Realgar / 5 Golden Herb; usable at lv30).

Finally, for some quick HP regeneration, look into the Second Wind skill for your genie.

remember to use winged shell b:bye

What others said above. For archers PvE and PvP takes loads of skills to do, not Shadow and Attack like sins or whatever. Just practice.

just start making good macros and make sure u r at max range of mob
accuracity and evasion in this game is kinda broken, works only in pvp. at lvl 60 i managed to miss mob 5 times in a row lol
buy mag def and p.def belt and necklace and change them depending which mobs u fight, it will help a bit, barbs have buff to increase p.att so if u see any kitty ask him buff u

It really doesn't get better until 60.


Once you get your first hh-crossbow (at 60) or your level 79 slingshot PvE becomes rediculously easy (killing monsers) untill your 9x levels when monsters have a lot more hp.


It will be soo easy in fact - that you will never get hit unless you aggro more than one monster.



But easy does not mean its fun. It becomes too easy you'll fall asleep.

On any ranged character I play (archer, cleric), I will have Earthquake on my genie for an extra knockback.

macros..lol macros..i love my hotkeysb:chuckle

Another good tactic I found after learning the stun arrow is this :

1- Frost arrow
2- 2 normal attacks
3- Stun arrow
4- 1 normal attack
5- Knockback
6- Normal attack
7- If the mob is still alive I`m running away from it and waiting for my knockback or stun arrow to cool down, then repeating until the mob is dead.

I have not seen anyone post a combination that I remember using a lot:

winged shell, take aim (fully charged), two or three normal attacks, optional knockback arrow, normal attacks...

Or skip the take aim bit, depending...

The exact details of this approach depend on the monster you are fighting. If knockback arrow would have you running forward afterwards, you should use another normal shot before knockback arrow on that kind of monster. If you are getting a good set of critical hits and high damage hits, you do not need the knockback arrow.

The disadvantage of this approach is that winged shell has a 30 second cooldown. So another variation has winged shell being used after knockback arrow, and you start on your next monster immediately before the shell wears off.

But for some kinds of monsters this works better than frost arrow. (You will have to use your judgement there.)

Meanwhile, I find I mostly use stunning arrow to defend squad mates in bad situations. If you are fighting in a squad, things become very different (and the things that mark a good archer tend to be rather different) from solo play. But that would be fuel for another set of threads...

endgame (if you go demon) you will use this combo:

demon quickshot
mob dead

b:laugh

i used before:
frost - 2x normals - knockback - normals

Elenacostel - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Stunning arrow should be unnecessary.

The combo and Sir Aquilez suggested is the standard attack pattern for most archers, and works in most cases.

If you are using more potions than you are acquiring via drops, than you are inherently doing something incorrectly.

Maybe it's just the fact that I play on a west coast server when I'm east coast, but... to me, general lag principles tend to make knockback arrow less than effective on its own. Specifically, the mob will "jump forward" almost as much distance as it was knocked back, making the knockback effect almost negligible. Stun arrow, therefore, has become my staple by making knockback more reliable in a combo that includes it.

I use take aim -> normals -> stun -> knockback -> frost if necessary -> normals until dead. MP use? Honestly, who cares? This can easily be countered by gathering a few herbs and making Jade Powder or Focus Powder. MP is not a terribly precious resource unless you're barraging, and ever since we started having event pots, even that has become fairly cheap.

Just my two cents. *shrug*

Fleuri - Sanctuary wrote: »

winged shell helps a lot with mana (like Mr_Snipe was saying), and apothecary can be wonderful (for level 26, life powder and focus powder would help you a LOT, if you feel like taking the time to make them, like Miugre was saying).

I just discovered how useful winged shell is when grinding mobs. It regenerates mana aaannd absorbs come damage. It kept me from draining pots. Also, i use skill combos and normal attack for a specific mob. Very rarely I miss after a knockback but I still have to run or die if i'm being teamed afk or not.

Anyways keep going @ it, don't give up. It's a worthy class. b:victory

Epic necro double post ccccombooooo!!!!!

ArchSaber - Sanctuary wrote: »

Ugh I had like 5.(something)k accuracy at level 77 on my archer. I missed about 6 times dueling 1 BM.

Yah not really a good necro when it was only made a month ago.

But it's a whole entire day passed the cut off date!

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